The US faces a Soviet-style humiliation in Afghanistan, a fugitive Afghan warlord claimed in a video message while taunting Pakistan for aiding US-led counter-terrorism operations. In the video, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar accused Washington of fomenting conflict among Afghan ethnic groups on a scale comparable with the strife in Iraq. “Everyone knows the American aggressors are faced with defeat in every part of the country.” “They were unable to achieve their goals … They are preparing to leave like the Soviet troops.”